A Murder of Quality
A Murder of Quality
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.
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Denholm Elliott
as George Smiley
Joss Ackland
as Terence Fielding
Glenda Jackson
as Alisa Brimley
Billie Whitelaw
as Mad Janie
David Threlfall
as Stanley Rode
Ronald Pickup
as Felix D'Arcy
Matthew Scurfield
as Inspector Rigby
Christian Bale
as Tim Perkins
Diane Fletcher
as Shane Hecht
Fiona Walker
as Dorothy D'Arcy
Michael Cochrane
as Charles Hecht
William Armstrong
as Rev. Fergus
Moray Watson
as Maj. Harriman
Tim Dutton
as Simon Snow
Helen Lindsay
as Mrs. Harlowe
Samantha Womack
as Alice Lawry
John Grillo
as The Pathologist
Thorley Walters
as Bishop Harry
